Posted on 04/18/2014 12:19:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The thought of the Lone Star State slowly transforming into a blue state is frightening to many native Texans, who fear that transplants will inject their cities with the very policies they initially fled from.
But not everyone buys the theory.
"Most liberals from California would rather die than come here," Chuck DeVore, Vice President of Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation told Breitbart Texas. "They perceive Texas as a Bible belt, gun toting, cowboy hat-wearing state. They think, 'If you can't surf, why would you go there?'"
DeVore should know--he used to live in California and served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010. He eventually made the move to Texas due to the lower living costs and higher quality of life.
DeVore thinks that the majority of Texas transplants are similar to him: Conservatives feeling suffocated by big cities' overwhelmingly liberal choke-hold. He said, "Migration is largely of taxpaying entrepreneurs and hardworking people who want to escape."
He pointed to a joint study by the University of Texas and Texas Tribune which confirmed that "California has been losing people in droves. The plurality of those migrants have moved to Texas, as many as 70,000 in 2011 and 60,000 in 2012." However, after polling a significant portion of the fresh transplants, the study found that 57 percent of them are self-proclaimed conservatives and only 27 percent are liberal.
"So while some may want to perceive the wave of Californians coming to Texas as part of the broader demographic trends that might eventually turn Texas purple, and then blue, the data collected to date suggest that Perry’s pitch appears to be hitting a chord with Californians who wear cowboy boots instead of Birkenstocks," the Texas Tribune concluded.
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LOL back in the 80s I was visiting a construction site near Houston. An old Texas guy told me “son, if we had welfare like you folks up north, half the population of Mexico would move here tomorrow”
I don’t know if this is still the law, but it used to be that you could take out a few minutes to walk a seining net and catch lunch, or in my old haunts, walk over to the bay side and seine for giant shrimp that were trapped in places I knew about, and check our unregulated crab cages for lunch, at night you went gigging for flounder and crabs.
“but how do you explain Colorado….over run by Californians”
Ski slopes! You ain’t got many of them in Texas.
Why do muzzies leave their third world s***hole states & come here to make trouble for us “infidels” while attempting to make America compliant with Islam??
Shariah law is supposed to be the perfect word of Allah, is it not? Why don’t they stay where it’s in total control?
The same logic should apply for liberals in liberal states. They’ve established their socialist paradise enclaves, let them stay in them.
An extinct beast around these parts.
Sounds like my wife the seafood freak would love Texas.
I suspect the waves skeeter is referring to make the Gulf of Mexico waves look like
a ripple. Pacific waves are much different.
Unfortunately Texas is being over run with illegals.
More than half of all kids born in Texas are Mexican.
Demographics are destiny. Texas will soon turn blue and eventually it will go back to Mexico.
That is easy to say, but so far, it isn’t in evidence, Texas is not California, and Texans are not Californians, they are conservatives who fight back, and look for ways to actually defeat the left, California never was conservative, it was merely moderate (libertarian) republican.
That, geography and the weather are the only thing my state has over Texas.
Its obvious they win in every other catagory.
If Texas is surrendered to Mexico, then it’ll come down to Mexicans and muslims fighting it out for the remaining scraps.
Those were factors. But so was rising affluence. A lot of rich Republicans' kids went to fancy schools and turned Democrat. Immigration and internal migration nailed down the Democrats' advantage, but plenty of Reagan Republicans raised Democrat children.
The Gulf of Mexico is calmer than California’s coastal waves, except for the hurricanes.
Here is a letter from a Kalifornicka transplant to Austin posted on the KLBJ FB page. Comments are telling him bye, bye.
https://www.facebook.com/ToddandDon
Hey Guys,
Love your show but I am so tired of your rude callers who are always blaming us Californians with issues in this town of Austin and the state.
It’s not Californians changing things, it’s the locals allowing things to happen. At least clarify what you say, as it’s not Californians which by the way it’s said, includes all of us.
Believe me, I would not be here if it was not that My Wife wanted to be near her Daughter. The good thing is that her Daughter is now moving to Denver cause her husband, who is a european trained Chef, could not get a decent job here. To many restaurants here that do not provide the quality food he likes to prepare, which is not Bar-B-Que, fastfood or meat, meat , meat.
And the toll roads just take, take, take. You pay on time and they post it late, then you get a toll violation and this happens over and over again. No wonder there are so many locals that owe lots of money to these toll roads.
Sorry but you had a guy call in talking about us moving here. Any Californian that is here, is only because of work, not because the state is so great. Besides, a good majority of Californians are not even from California and there are many Texans there.
Bought several times, organic fruit from HEB and had to return it because it was rotten inside. Couldn’t believe it and also had to return some chicken that was from a factory here in Texas. Fortunately, HEB returned our money.
So, now we can finally get outta here and back to the West, the mountains, the beaches, more of a variety of restaurants that serve different kinds of food, not to mention, better and fresher vegetables and fruits for better prices.
Still like your show and like it when Sgt. Sam says this is not the Austin he knew. And it’s not because of us, either.
There are some good things here but not enough to keep us around and the weather is terrible.
Sorry again, but your caller ticked me off. We are all Americans, so let’s stick together and not act like high schoolers. And I fought for this entire country, not just California.
Have a Good Day,
Henry
Ping to my last post above.
Ever hear of Galveston?
The overall trend indicated in the article, if true, bodes well for Conservatives and the GOP in Texas.
I suspect the waves skeeter is referring to make the Gulf of Mexico waves look like a ripple. Pacific waves are much different.
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And much, much colder, as are the Atlantic waves (even off of Jax Beach FL).
South Padre, Galveston, Corpus Christi TX; Biloxi MS, Pensacola Beach FL = Warm waters, great sandy beaches!
My oldest boy just moved to Texas. He is conservative enough to offset at least 10 liberals.
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